Cooking with Snails
Friday 24th September 2010Our friends at Electrolux announced the results of their Design Labs 2010 competition at 100% Design in London yesterday.
Top Spot, with a €5k prize and a six month placement at one of Electrolux’s Global Design Centres went to Peter Alwin and his ingenious Snail concept.
It might look like a futuristic iron but in fact it is a portable cooking and heating device, that uses induction technology and is powered by a high density sugar crystal battery.
According to the jury the Snail “is a well researched concept that even goes beyond the brief. In addition to being a solution for city dwellers, it offers a wider social potential for use in remote areas; just as the first mobile phone opened opportunities.”
You can find out more at the Electrolux Design Labs blog.
So three cheers for Peter and the rest of the finalists.
Looking forward to next year’s entries already.
Experience HTC
Wednesday 25th August 2010You may not know it but that smartphone you love is most likely from HTC. They have been the face behind some of the best smartphones on the market since 1997, creating white label devices for O2 and Google to name just two.
Today, HTC are out of the shadows and becoming a recognised mobile name in their own right. In July, the gadget crazy team at Head got the opportunity to put their experience and creativity to the test and help re-vamp the products section of the HTC website.
Better yet. While creating the new products section of the HTC website, the team got to play with all their latest android phones. Enticingly seductive in design, the latest Wildfire and Desire have all the trimmings you want in a smartphone and then some.
Smartphones in the past may have seemed more the domain of the tech gadget man. Although, the tech gurus amongst us were hard pressed to let anyone else near them, the rest of the team became HTC Sense aware and loved the thought, ease of interactivity and cool tools that come as default on the phones. We fell in love.
Why not find out more for yourself by checking out our handiwork on the HTC website: www.htc.com or view our case study here.
London’s Alternative Olympic Mascots
Wednesday 19th May 2010
The master’s of decency here at Head have prepared some truly British alternatives to the official London Olympic Mascot launch and the press have already caught on after the mascots were featured on the Guardian Sport website today.
The series of alternative mascots range from pork scratchings and 50p pieces to pints of ale and dirty fivers – mainly pub lifestyle orientated. As the Guardian put it “What about some pub snack characters, offers James Kirkup who, it would appear, reckons that by putting arms on any object you can create an Olympic mascot”.
To see the rest of the entries and a few more of our ideas head over to the Guardian’s gallery here.
The .Net makeover
Tuesday 2nd February 2010
Last month the wonderful people at .Net magazine asked our Andy to put together a makeover article to be featured in the March issue of their magazine. The brief was to redesign the homepage of SoGlos.com, Gloucestershire’s online culture resource.
The article includes loads of great tips and advice on how Andy went about the redesign and an insight into how we would go about this kind of work on a larger scale at Head. The article can be found on page 96 of this months issues, on sale now at all good news agents.
A new home for Hubbub
Tuesday 15th December 2009Our new site for the charming Hubbub looks set to transform the way we make use of some of our great local shops online.
The beauty of Hubbub is that it allows you to order quality foods from your local independent shops, packs everything up for you (sensibly, so there’s not a glimpse of wasteful packaging) and then delivers your order all in one go straight to your door at a time that suits you.
The brainchild of Marisa Leaf, Hubbub will make shopping from different local stores as convenient as buying online from a single supermarket, creating a win-win-win for local producers, traders and consumers. The new online service allows you to browse items by shop, and/or by product, and everything you want can be ordered in a single transaction.
The clever clogs here at Head HQ have been working hard the last few months on every part of the site from design to development including the ordering facility, admin and CMS for the site.
The service is currently doing the rounds in most of Highbury, Islington, Finsbury Park, Stoke Newington, Tufnell Park and Kentish Town and the plan is to roll the service out to other areas across London and the rest of the UK as soon as possible, with each area being served by its own local shops.
So if you happen to be one of the lucky ones living in a hubbub zone, why not check out the new site and start ordering some lovely food. Oh and look out for Hubbub’s super delivery van, delivering around the area right now.
